This volume contains the following manuscripts described as either an Inaugural Dissertation or an Inaugural Essay presented to the University of Maryland for the Degree of "Doctor of Medicine" or "Doctor of Physic" : Digestion / by Skinner, John O. ; Causes of Disease / by Evans, William W. ; Abortion / by Beckenbaugh, John M. ; Digestion / by Robertson, Edgar W. ; Dropsy / by Mills, William V. ; Epidemic Cholera / by Waller, Edward R. ; Digestion / by Knight, Louis W. ; Opium / by Hoffmeier, Frank C. ; Typhoid Fever / by Anderson, Charles D. ; Inflammation / by Frush, Carroll V. R. ; Scarlatina / by Taylor, John A. ; Anaesthesia in Labor / by Knotts. James V. ; Typhoid Fever / by Donavin, Mathew W. ; Inflammation / by Hooper, John R. ; Intermittent Fever / by Kelly, Thomas ; Medical Art in the Cure of Disease / by Burrington, Solon O. ; Dyspepsia / by Price, Robert J. ; Constituents of the Blood / by Hysore, William F. ; Rheumatism / by Norris, John B. ; Acute Inflammation / by Maynard, James W. ; Non-Antiphlogistic Treatment of Acute Disease / by Purcell, James B.